Excellent educational video! Awesome! Very useful!!!!!!!! Do you remember Eagle Optics? They are gone now, but you all seem to be doing a wonderful job helping all of us learn like they used to do. Thank you!
Great video and as a wearer of eyeglasses eye relief is the number one spec I check. It would have been good if you were able to discus usable eye relief as well. I need about 15 mm of usable eye relief and I've found that unless the listed eye relief is over 20 mm I really need to know the distance from the lens to the eye cup rim to get the usable eye relief. Example, the Zeiss Terra EDs and Vortex Vipers 8x42 both list 18 mm of eye relief however the Vipers have over 4 mm of eye cup above the lens while the Terras have about 2 mm. So while they are both listed at 18 mm of eye relief, the Terra has about 16 mm of usable and the Viper has about 14 mm and only the Terra is usable for me. I've found this really limits what binos will work for me :(
A binocular for a hardcore birder needs to be very rugged, it needs to be in very good balance and it needs to be easy to use, I have the old, but excellent Leitz Trinovid 8x32 BA and 10x40 BA which I most use at home because I want to keep them for many years, I have broken one Leitz Trinovid 10x40 BA/N. My other two binoculars which I use in the field are the excellent Leica Ultravid 8x32 and 12x50.
Excellent educational video! Awesome! Very useful!!!!!!!! Do you remember Eagle Optics? They are gone now, but you all seem to be doing a wonderful job helping all of us learn like they used to do. Thank you!
Great video and as a wearer of eyeglasses eye relief is the number one spec I check. It would have been good if you were able to discus usable eye relief as well. I need about 15 mm of usable eye relief and I've found that unless the listed eye relief is over 20 mm I really need to know the distance from the lens to the eye cup rim to get the usable eye relief. Example, the Zeiss Terra EDs and Vortex Vipers 8x42 both list 18 mm of eye relief however the Vipers have over 4 mm of eye cup above the lens while the Terras have about 2 mm. So while they are both listed at 18 mm of eye relief, the Terra has about 16 mm of usable and the Viper has about 14 mm and only the Terra is usable for me. I've found this really limits what binos will work for me :(
A binocular for a hardcore birder needs to be very rugged, it needs to be in very good balance and it needs to be easy to use, I have the old, but excellent Leitz Trinovid 8x32 BA and 10x40 BA which I most use at home because I want to keep them for many years, I have broken one Leitz Trinovid 10x40 BA/N. My other two binoculars which I use in the field are the excellent Leica Ultravid 8x32 and 12x50.
Is there a good way to find our ipd?
You can hold a ruler up to your eyes while looking in the mirror to get a rough estimate, but your eye doctor can tell you the precise measurement!